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Originally Posted by outlaw sammy
NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY! To ask if "knew" what he was doing during a manic episode - is like asking an epileptic if they "knew" what they were doing during a seizure. Your husband really means what he telling you about being sorry and out-of-control - but that's your "normal" husband speaking.
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I obviously don't speak for everyone diagnosed with both- but I really have to disagree on this one.
At some level and for at least some point of time, you understand what you are doing is wrong. At a certain point you may cease to have that insight. Again, by all the logic presented, the new phone [and therefore need for secrecy] makes little sense. So I have to suggest there was some knowledge of wrongdoing here- even if he feels very very guilty.
How to deal with these events, how to process them? It's not up to anyone but the OP and the spouse.
However, I would suggest not eschewing any responsibility from here forward in any way on anyone's part.
You both know what you are dealing with now. [Whether it is a diagnosed mood disorder, a hypersensitivity to stimulants... or the infamous "Door Number Three"]
Fool me once... right?